Chairperson’s Bio

Clyde Caruana is an economist with a specialisation in welfare state topics.

He worked as a statistician at the National Statistics Office of Malta between 2007 and 2012. For the past five years, he has been lecturing various economics-related subjects at the University of Malta. His main areas of interest include the labour market, welfare policy, poverty, and income distribution.

Caruana was the main author of a number of policy documents for the Maltese Government, namely the Jobs+ Policy (2013) and the National Employment Policy (2014).

In April 2014, at the age of 29, he was appointed Chairperson of the ETC, now Jobsplus.